VMware VSA Export VMs from broken appliances
So the title sounds disastrous and its a fact that I had recently faced the issue at one of our customers where one of the VSA ESXi nodes failed due to hardware issues and...
Category: ESXi
Enable Nested Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V on VMware vSphere 5.5
Actually the topic itself is almost redundant but I couldn’t find a single post with results that actually work without going through comments by various readers, so after thorough testing I came with the...
vCenter Log Insight Static IP Address (Not Supported)
Today I wanted to install the vCenter Log Insight on my VMware Workstation Right-click on the OVA Open with VMware Workstation Specify the name and location of the virtual machine. Accept the license. Power...
VCAP5-DTA: Section 1: Objective 1.1
[Section 1 – Deploy View Installations and Upgrade Existing Deployments] Objective 1.1 – Deploy Highly Available View Installations: Configure highly available connectivity to the View environment Configure stateful and stateless load balancing for a...
VCAP5-DTA: Introduction to the blueprint
Well it seems that the VCAP-DCD needs to wait a bit because I just couldn’t help shifting my attention to VCAP5-DTA, in this series of blogs I will be going through the blueprint as...
vSphere 5.x Tip To Toe: VSA Appliance root access! Why?
Sometimes you get odd requests from customers but usually they have a valid argument, in this case a customer had an intelligent UPS which performs a soft shutdown of the virtual machines in case...
vSphere 5.x Tip To Toe: Replace a vSphere Storage Appliance (5.5)
I was troubleshooting at a customer’s site and I found out that one of the appliances for some reason is corrupt from a configuration perspective, the cluster would always see the appliance offline when...
